These are the footnotes for a brief excerpt from Chapter 8 of
The Read-Aloud Handbook (Penguin, 2006, 6th edition).

Footnotes for CHAPTER EIGHT

(Lessons from Oprah, Harry, and the Internet)

1. Iris C. Rotberg, (Ed.), Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2004). Rotberg's book on education reform in 16 countries showed that few other countries use testing in the lower grades and almost none hold teachers accountable for student grades. She wrote in Education Week, “[It is] ironic because a major impetus for the testing movement was our perception that other countries were outperforming the United States in international test-score comparisons. yet, in our attempt to be more like the countries we most admire, we have adopted practices that few of these countries use.” Iris C. Rotberg, "The Bigger Picture: U.S. Education in a Global Context," Education Week, Commentary, February 9, 2005.
2. (See Chapter 5 in the print edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook (Penguin 2006).
3. D. T. Max, “The Oprah Effect,” The New York Times Magazine, December 26, 1999, pp. 36–41.
4. Roger Kimball, "Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western culture," The New Criterion, June 2000, online at: http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun00/barzun.htm.
5. “‘For it was indeed he,’” Fortune Magazine, April 1934; also found in Only Connect, Sheila Egoff, G. T. Stubbs, and L. F. Ashley, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), pp. 41–61.
6. Catherine Sheldrick Ross, “If They Read Nancy Drew, So What? Series Book Readers Talk Back,” Library and Information Science Research (LISR) vol. 17, 1995, pp. 201–36. This research won the American Library Association’s research award in 1995. A shortened version appeared in School Library Media Quarterly, Spring 1996, pp. 165–71.
7. Barbara A. Bruschi and Richard J. Coley, “How Teachers Compare: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Skills of America’s Teachers,” ETS Policy Information Center (Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, March 1999). Available on the Web at www.ets.org/research/pic/compare.html.
8. G. Robert Carlsen and Anne Sherrill, Voices of Readers: How We Come to Love Books (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1988).
9. Joel Achenbach, "Search for Tomorrow," The Washington Post, February 15, 2004, p. D1.
10. Nate Stulman, “The Great Campus Goof-Off Machine,” The New York Times, May 15, 1999, Op-ed page.
11. Paul Attewell, Belkis Suazo-Garcia, and Juan Battle, "Computers and Young Children: Social Benefit or Social Problem?" Social Forces, September 2003.
12. "Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School," Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann, researchers at the University of Munich, CESifo Working Paper No. 1321, November 2004, online at: http://www.cesifo.de/~DocCIDL/cesifo1_wp1321.pdf
13. Ian Austen, “The Case of the Flickering Pixels,” The New York Times, February 3, 2000, pp. D1, D9.
14. Catherine Greenman, “Printed Page Beats PC Screen for Reading, Study Finds,” The New York Times, August 10, 2000, p. E11.
15. Quoted in Robert Darnton, “The New Age of the Book,” New York Review, March 18, 1999, p. 5.
16. June Kronholz , “PowerPoint Goes to School,” The Wall St. Journal, November 12, 2002, pp. B1, B6.
17. Kevin Stevens,"Incoming: Two Sides of PowerPoint," The New York Times, letter to the technology section, June 7, 2001, p. E6.

18. Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, and Thomas M. Jessell, editors, Principles of Neural Science, Third Edition, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange, 1991). “The visual system is the most complex of all the sensory systems. The auditory nerve contains about 30,000 fibers, but the optic nerve (visual) contains one million, more than all the dorsal root fibers entering the entire spinal cord!”

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